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295 sats \ 4 replies \ @OT 19 Apr \ on: How some hobbyism is suffocating Bitcoin bitcoin

I guess silent payments took a back seat this past year or so. Privacy doesn't seem to be a high priority for most bitcoiners.

I'd say that if this plan is really all you need to get silent payments going then you could either start a Geyser fund or build some of these servers yourself and sell them. If it were really only 3 servers for the world that might be kinda risky. If Electrum servers could do it that would be ideal.

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195 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 10h
If Electrum servers could do it that would be ideal.

Whenever you need an index for a sub-protocol, I think the order of implementation desirability is:

  1. Core/Knots
  2. electrs
  3. btcd or libbitcoin-server
  4. bespoke indexer

It does make sense to do it bespoke first, or even be practical and work through the list in reverse order (like how compact block filters and utreexo have been / are being developed.)

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46 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 15h

Craig Raw was on Citadel Dispatch recently and gave a very compelling pitch for silent payments. I wasn't too enthusiastic about it, but he was quite compelling.

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151 sats \ 1 reply \ @sime 19 Apr

Also lightning has a lot of privacy built in.

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124 sats \ 0 replies \ @avbpod OP 22h

if it works :)

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